Reading ASCII data of unknown length

[Tim Kerwin]

Hi,

I'm a new octave user with a problem which I hope someone has already solved:  
I need to read data (ASCII floating point numbers) from a file specified by 
the user.  The trouble is that I don't know the length of the input file, so I 
have to fscanf(...) until EOF, which generates an error message which may 
alarm users.

Any help will be appreciated!

Tim